SPEAK ENGLISH ROUND THE CLOCK AT SUMMER SCHOOL! This could be your last chance! TEA is in the process of dissolving and at present no more summer schools are planned.

DO YOU FIND YOURSELF USING ENGLISH ONLY IN THE CLASSROOM? NO CONTACT WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS? THEN COME TO SAALBACH AND JOIN OTHER ENGLISH TEACHERS FOR A GREAT TIME WITH NATIVE SPEAKER TRAINERS AND ORGANIZERS:

A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY IN AUSTRIA! Register at: office@tea4teachers.org. If you register before 31 January and pay a deposit of €50 you will receive a 10% discount.

Non members have a reduced fee this year as it does not include TEA membership.

24th TEA Summer School, 20 - 24 August 2018 which will include these topics:

How communication psychology can improve teaching skills

As ELT specialists, our focus is on our students’ language & communication skills. What about our own communication? How do we attend to that? This workshop highlights how a teacher’s communication style can enhance or hinder learner engagement. Practical concepts from communication psychology and intercultural communication that support classroom interaction will be demonstrated and practiced.

Language and Culture in the ClassroomKnowing English is no longer only the key to understanding people from English-speaking countries but has opened up communication with the whole world. But understanding someone from a different culture and making yourself understood is not just a question of speaking English well or culture-related knowledge. In our workshops we will experience different methodologies, techniques and the full range of materials – films, stories, drama and games - to combine language and intercultural learning for the benefit of EFL students at different proficiency levels.

Trainers:

Julia Warner started working as a trainer for business English in 1997. In 2010, she completed a coaching certification which has allowed her to combine her experience in language training with her new-found interest: communication psychology. Since then she has completed a combined BA in psychology and sociology, and she is a registered mediator according to the Austrian civil code. Sheteaches English, but also gives talks and seminars for teachers on how communication psychology can improve teaching skills.

Uwe Pohl is a German national and works as a university-based teacher and teacher trainer in Budapest, Hungary. His main professional interests are ELT methodology, intercultural communication, mentoring and trainer training. He has been doing in-service work in EFL for OUP, the British Council and the Council of Europe in Austria (ECML Graz), Germany, Ethiopia, Turkey, Egypt, the UK and China. He has also run regular summer courses for the Norwich Institute of Language Education (NILE) and Share One Language (SOL) in Barnstaple, UK.

Our summer school will be held at:

Bundesschullandheim Saalbach

Dorfstraße 38

5754 Saalbach/Hinterglemm

Accommodation is on a first-come-first-served basis and should be booked through TEA but paid at the venue.

Prices:

Coursefees

€180TEA members (€160 students)

€207 non-members (€160 students)

(includes TEA membership for one year)

Please see important information overleaf concerning deposit and early bird discount.

Accommodation

Single:€54 per person per day, including full board (if staying a minimum of 4 nights)

(some double or family rooms available)

]]>office@tea4teachers.org (Administrator)frontpageMon, 22 Jan 2018 10:05:37 +0000TEA Summer School, 21-25 August 2017http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=179:tea-summer-school-21-25-august-2017&catid=35:upcoming-events&Itemid=2
http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=179:tea-summer-school-21-25-august-2017&catid=35:upcoming-events&Itemid=2Our Summer School in 2017 will take place in Raach, Niederösterreich at the Seminarzentrum, 2640 Raach am Hochgebirge. http://www.szr.at/index.shtml We will have the following trainers:

Jamie Keddieis a teacher trainer, writer and presenter who has shared his ideas with teachers /educators all over the world. His areas of interest include image, video, video camera & storytelling in the classroom. He founded lessonstream.org, and is the author of ‘Images’ (OUP 2009), ‘Bringing online video into the classroom’ (OUP 2014) and ‘Videotelling’ (2016). Jamie is an associate trainer at Norwich Institute for Language Education. His workshops will be about:

The Teacher as Storyteller. Teacher-led storytelling is often associated with young learners. But we are considering a classroom art which is far too versatile and valuable to be connected with one group alone. In this series of workshops, I would like share tasks/techniques that allow us to turn a short story into a whole-class discussion with learning opportunities along the way. Some stories are based on video narratives – often referred to as 'Videotelling'.

Peter Dyer has worked in Australia as a professional actor and has appears in many TV series and films and done radio and voice work.He is a graduate secondary teacher in Drama and Media Arts and has workedfor Pilgrims in Canterburg for over 20 years as a teacher trainer in drama methodology and improvisation in the language classroom.

Creative Teaching. Participants do some group coordination activities to build cohesion & confidence. Then there will be simple improvisation activities to encourage our students to want to speak & these can be adapted for writing too. We will develop our listening/communication skills & free ourcreative/imaginative forces to help students too.

To register:

REGISTRATION, PAYMENT AND CANCELLATION INFORMATION

New:Registration is considered official upon payment of a deposit amounting to a minimum of €50.

Deadline for registration and payment:30 June 2017 (first-come, first-served basis).

Early bird discount of 10% if registration and €50 deposit received by 31 January 2017.

Please note: Cancellations after 1 July 2017 will incur a cancellation charge of €50.

For cancellations after 1 August 2017 course fees cannot be refunded.

Prices are: for TEA members: €180, for non-TEA members €240, for students: €180 (if TEA member €160) Non-TEA members receive one year free membership for the year following the summer school. Prices for accommodation at the Seminarzentrum Raach are as follows: €55 per person in a single for full board with registration through TEA on a first-come first-served basis. Some doubles and family rooms are available. Please note that participants who are not staying at the Seminarzentrum Raach are charged a facility fee of €8.50 without meals, or 19.50 including lunch, or €28 for all meals each day. Booking will be done by TEA, participants pay for their accommodation at the venue.

How to register: email us at: summerschool@utanet.at or office@tea4teachers.org. Transfer your €50 deposit to the TEA account and the balance of your fee by 30 June 2017.

Details about trainers and programmes will also be published at www@tea4teachers.organd further details sent to you after you have registered.

]]>office@tea4teachers.org (Administrator)frontpageTue, 13 Dec 2016 06:56:40 +0000Graz ConneXion, ELT Frameworks - Program!http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178:graz-connexion-elt-frameworks-program&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178:graz-connexion-elt-frameworks-program&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50To see our program for the upcoming conference on 1-2 April 2016 in Grazclick here for Friday's events. And click here for Saturday's program! To register for the conference click here. We have arranged a great event and are just waiting for you to join us. See you there. For hotel booking information click here.]]>office@tea4teachers.org (Administrator)frontpageMon, 15 Feb 2016 06:51:43 +0000Teaching grammar: new tools for your toolkit with Philip Kerrhttp://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:teaching-grammar-new-tools-for-your-toolkit-with-philip-kerr&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:teaching-grammar-new-tools-for-your-toolkit-with-philip-kerr&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Save the date:18 February 2016

Place:Webster University, Praterstrasse 23, 1020 Vienna

Time:18.00-20.00

Most teachers have a pretty good repertoire of ways of presenting and practising grammar. But new ideas are always welcome! This workshop will be exploring a variety of classroom techniques and activities, that relate to grammar teaching, and that will probably be new to you. Some new ways of using grammar boxes, explaining rules, making more of grammar gap-fills, setting up communicative practice, and more. Please register at office@tea4teachers.org by 12 February 2016.

Philip Kerr is a well-known teacher trainer, lecturer and materials writer with over 30 years of experience in English language teaching. His publications include the coursebook series 'Straightforward' and 'Inside Out', and the methodology titles 'Translation and Own-Language Activities' (which received the ESU / Duke of Edinburgh prize) and 'How to Write Vocabulary Presentation and Practice Activities'. He blogs about technology and language teaching at http://adaptivelearninginelt.wordpress.com/ He lives in Vienna and is a board member of TEA.

]]>office@tea4teachers.org (Administrator)frontpageThu, 17 Dec 2015 17:56:06 +0000Summer School 2016 - Register before 31 January 2016 and save!http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=176:summer-school-2016-register-before-31-january-2016-and-save&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=176:summer-school-2016-register-before-31-january-2016-and-save&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50Register at office@tea4teachers.org by 31 January for our Summer School 2016 in Saalbach 22-26 August 2016 and save 10%. Our trainers are Sinéad Laffon and Edmund Dudley and you can find out more in our event section under summer school! Enjoy speaking English with the trainers and colleagues throughout the event - right here in Austria. We look forward to welcoming you: register early to ensure you have a place.]]>office@tea4teachers.org (Administrator)frontpageTue, 01 Dec 2015 18:39:30 +0000ELT News Fall Editionhttp://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170:elt-news-fall-edition&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170:elt-news-fall-edition&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50Our ELT News Fall edition has been out now, but by clicking on this link you can open the online journal. We hope you enjoy this issue and will look for more when our next issue is out in June. You will find interesting articles about EFL in a longer format than in our newsletter. And while the newsletter is only available to our members, anyone can access the ELT News. Do take a look.]]>office@tea4teachers.org (Administrator)frontpageWed, 19 Aug 2015 12:45:30 +0000Graz ConneXion, ELT Frameworkshttp://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:graz-connexion-elt-frameworks&catid=40:tea-conferences
http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:graz-connexion-elt-frameworks&catid=40:tea-conferencesSave the Date: 1-2 April 2016

Our biennial conference planning is continuing and our call for presenters has ended. Soon we will let you know more detailed information about our conference schedule. Our keynote speakers are: Lindsay Clandfield, Peter Medgyes, Marjorie Rosenberg. The conference will be taking place atthe Department of English Studies of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Heinrichstraβe 36, A-8010 Graz, Friday afternoon and Saturday. If you are interested in attending:

Check out our facebook page and our event page and keep returning here for the latest information. We are sure we'll have a great event and look forward to seeing you there. More details can be found below

Come along and join us for a pub quiz.While Irish pubs have been doing this for a while and the quizzes have become very popular, this is the first one for TEA.So stop by and try your hand at answering all sorts of questions while networking with colleagues.This evening is all about having fun and not about showing off how much you know, but we will have prizes for the winning table and expect you to leave the event with new friends and new knowledge.So come and join us, and bring a colleague… we will have a few questions related to our profession as well as many more.Arrive at 6 p.m. if you want to order dinner, the fun starts at 7!Please register at office@tea4teachers.org by 20 April so we can give appropriate numbers to the restaurant.

p.s. for those of you who are not sure exactly what a pub quiz is, go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pub_quiz

]]>office@tea4teachers.org (Administrator)frontpageSun, 19 Apr 2015 08:56:06 +0000The Vienna ConneXion: 25-26 April 2014http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157:the-vienna-connexion&catid=40:tea-conferences
http://www.tea4teachers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157:the-vienna-connexion&catid=40:tea-conferencesThanks to everyone that came along to our Conference! Here are a few photos to remind you what went on (or show you what you missed!).... and of course there is full coverage in the Spring edition of the ELT News - available online now.

What a week it was! Judging by the photos, an innocent outsider could guess the order of the day, from harmless to shocking—possibly even murder! But those must be the pictures of Ivan’s drama groups, enacting their own innovative scenes. We would be remiss not to mention the laughter and raised eyebrows in the other groups, where Candy’s spirited insights took us through a series of stimulating sessions including using advertising in the classroom, emotional intelligence, positive psychology, body language and more.

One good thing about TEA summer schools is the social life, and the advantage of staying at the venue is the evening program. The organised evenings included an entertaining slide show, drama and creative writing (more fun than it sounds!) whilst the other evenings featured various games.

Whether in the training sessions or through the social life, it would have been impossible to participate in summer school without networking and making friends. Participants from Vorarlberg to Lower Austria, from southern Carinthia to the northern reaches of Upper Austria, and even from across the border, agreed that TEA’s summer school is a special event. With five native speakers present, it was English, English, English, not only in the training but also at mealtimes and in the evenings.

Even the weather co-operated. Except for one rainy day, we were fortunate to have blue skies enhancing the lovely Tirolean landscape. Located at 1,200 meters, Bildungshaus St. Michael enjoys broad vistas and a peaceful environment amidst pastures and verdant meadows bordering conifer forests. The accommodations were superb, featuring new single rooms and excellent training facilities.

We are already looking forward to next year’s TEA summer school, scheduled for 18-22 August 2014 at the Bundesschullandheim in Saalbach, with Sally Kowanda and Eric Lomas as trainers. Keep watching the website, the TEA Newsletter if you are a TEA member and also our Facebook page for Summer School 2014 news, as well as updates on the TEA Conference and other events throughout the year.